Support fundraiser for Camille Landry
Can you help out a local activist whose home was completely lost to a fire two days before Christmas? This note from local peace activist Moses and Sadie Mast explains. …
Coast Guard video of Flight 1549 ditch and rescue
The plane comes in from the left at about 2:00 and by 9:50 everyone’s on the boats. All the professionals involved were just spectacular. As emptywheel noted, it was a …
History Channel goes presidential
If you get tired of the inaugural coverage, but still want a fix of historic presidencies, some of this week’s History Channel programming may fit the bill. I plan to …
Beastly loathsome list
Who would you pick as the 50 most loathsome people in America last year? Saving us considerably in disgust and time, The Beast gets it about right with a list …
Keith Olbermann: Bush's 8 disasterous years in 8 minutes
Finally, it is about over. Just two days, and we can watch watch his chickenhawk ass get out of our White House and our Capital City. Bush and his accomplices …
A couple of progressive Oklahoma bloggers leaving state
I’m pretty bummed about the Oklahoma Netroots losing two bloggers in one week. John Sutter of Concrete Buffalo (formerly of the Oklahoman and its Go Green blog — which apparently …
Oklahoma Agriculture Profile from American Farmland Trust
“Every year, more than 28,000 acres of Oklahoma’s prime farmland is lost to development.” STATE HIGHLIGHTS Number of Farms 83,300 Number of Government Subsidy Recipients 40,249 Oklahoma’s Share of U.S. …
Sad news: Texas Green Bill Holloway has died
Bill lived in Austin, but I believe he was from Oklahoma. He was very active with the Texas Green Party, and I met him in Crawford in August 2006, where …
KCCU first station in Oklahoma to air Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is finally airing in Oklahoma, though many residents will not be in a area where they can pick up the signal on a radio. For them, there is …